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Homeowners are being advised to trim trees close to electricity cables ahead of hurricane season, which starts on Wednesday. Energy provider Belco said that the majority of power outages are caused by downed trees — and that the problem is preventabl...

A flight from Ghana to the US had to divert to Bermuda on Monday after a passenger died on-board. The United Airlines 997 flight left Accra late on Sunday night, bound for Washington’s Dulles Airport. According to news reports, the passenger began st...

An award-winning photographer has raised thousands of dollars for charity – by “making something beautiful out of something that is pretty ugly”. Meredith Andrews was commissioned by the Bermuda National Gallery to create an exhibition highlighting ...

Staff at a local insurance company are volunteering their time to help a charity that provides homes for women and their children. Freisenbruch-Meyer employees have spent hours decorating the Transformational Living Centre for Families, which opened...

One of Bermuda’s oldest farmhouses has been given a $10,000 cash boost thanks to the fundraising efforts by members of the Garden Club of Bermuda. Carter House in St David’s was built in 1640 by descendants of Christopher Carter, one of the island’s ...

Vendors of party supplies have been feeling deflated because of a shortage of helium on the island. Among its many uses, the lighter-than-air gas is used to inflate party balloons. But a “perfect storm” of global events has created a shortage of the ...

The origins of an historic tree on display at one of the world’s leading plant science and conservation institutes has finally been unearthed – and it is not Bermudian, as scientists had long thought. Horticulturalists at the Royal Botanic Garden in...

The island’s roads and the Railway Trail were packed with people headed west on Saturday, whether walking, cycling or running, after the Convex End-to-End returned to full strength after the pandemic. Organisers claimed that this year’s event had gon...

One of the island’s most celebrated novelists was honoured for her work at a ceremony at Berkeley Institute on Saturday night. The school’s Girlcott committee hosted the event in honour of Florenz Maxwell, author of Girlcott. Ms Maxwell’s novel, pub...

A pet dog trapped for two days in the apartment block that collapsed in a suspected gas explosion was pulled from the debris alive and well yesterday. The dog was being looked after by a resident of the Hilltop Court building in Southampton when the...